Sweet freedom's plains : African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841-1869 /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Norman, OK :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Race and culture in the American West ;
v. 12. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The early Black presence in the West
- On the eve of overland migration: antebellum slavery and freedom
- The jumping-off places
- The providential corridor
- Community and work on the trails
- Life, death, and acts of kindness
- Sweet freedom's plains
- Place of promise
- Epilogue.